Political refugee from Uzbekistan shot dead in Crimea during a mobile operation to capture him
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21:50 / 15.05.2021
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Russian security forces have launched an operation to arrest Uzbek political prisoner Nabi (Ayub) Rakhimov in the village of Zavetnoe in the Crimean Sovetsky district. The suspect was killed during the operation, lawyer Islam Velilyayev said.
According to the lawyer, security forces searched the house where Rakhimov’s family lived and took his wife to the migration department. There she was charged with violating the regime of stay in Russia.
“They came in, greeted my mom, and then started asking about my dad. Then they searched the house. They wrote the reason for their arrival at the end of the protocol, read it, but I understood almost nothing. A copy of the protocol was not left. Some people came and saw our passport and told us to go to Sovetsky. They did not explain why. When my mother was taken away, I told her I would go too. My sister was scared,” Rakhimov’s 15-year-old son said.